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NScv14cb6566-12 & NScv14cb6566-13"While in the San Francisco
Naval Yard Ticonderoga received major repairs to her hull and machinery. The engineering
plant was reworked in many critical areas. Some equipment was replaced for the first time since the
ship's original commissioning. We were one of the few ships to ever come out of the yard on schedule,
and all things considered we were much the better for the work, and the liberty."
Ships on page 13 are USS Koiner (DER-331)
and USS Atlanta (IX-304).Page 12 (163Kb) & 13 (141Kb)

NScv14cb6566-19"Underway for San Diego.""We were returning from repairs in Bremerton.
The best I can recall was the picture was taken in mid-1966 after returning from our tour in VietNam."
Page 19 (168Kb)

NScv14cb6566-29Dependants Cruise.
Page 29 (195Kb)

NScv14cb6566-37"The War in Vietnam. North Vietnamese power plant goes up in smoke after a successful
strike."Page 37 (146Kb)

NScv14cb6566-47"The photos on these pages show a patrol in the Mekong Delta region. The prisoners
on the right are Viet Cong, the one farthest left turned out to be a young woman."Page 47 (146Kb)

NScv14cb6566-49"Special Visitors. Cardinal Spellman."Page 49 (113Kb)

NScv14cb6566-50"His Eminence Francis Cardinal Spellman, Cardinal Archbishop of New York [...] flew
aboard on the second day of Christmas, December 26".
Page 50 (151Kb)

NScv14cb6566-54"On December 22 we had the pleasure of seeing two performances given by Miss Martha
Raye, the woman who, except for an age that is in no way excessive, could be called the Grande Old
Lady of the American Stage."Page 54 (121Kb)

Broken Arrow, 5 December 1965: "While the USS Ticonderoga is en route from operations
off Vietnam to Yokosuka, Japan, an A-4E aircraft [BuNo 151022] of VA-56 loaded with one B43 nuclear
weapon goes overboard. The aircraft was being rolled from the number 2 hangar bay to the number 2
elevator when it rolled off the elevator with the pilot LTJG D[ouglas] M. Webster and the bomb and
sank in 2700 fathoms [16,200 feet; 4,938 meters] of water. A search fails to find the pilot. The
Department of Defense states this accident took place 'more than 500 miles from land' when it reveals
the accident in 1981. However, Navy documents show the accident occurred about 80 miles east of the
Japanese Ryuku Island chain and 250 miles south of Kyushu Island, Japan, and about 200 miles east of
Okinawa." (Quoted from "Unofficial U.S. Navy Site".)

"When this happened I was outside of (CIC) Combat Information Center taking a break. The A-4 rolled
off the elevator and sank quickly, the [pilot] did not make it out even though the cockpit was open."

James W. Doran, CWO4, USN (Ret) comments: "As I recall the incident, as the A-4 started to roll
towards the edge of the elevator, Webster stood up to try and get out. But the landing gear hit the
'safety' lip on the edge of the elevator and the elevator started to do a 'reverse somersault'. When
the bird hit the water it was upside down, if Webster had been (and I think he was) still been standing
in the cockpit the canopy would have slammed down on him when the bird hit the water. My guess is
he was still in the bird when it went down. My prayer is that he was unconscious."

NScv14cb6667-imIn memory of those men who were killed in the service of their country(170Kb)

USS TICONDEROGA (CVA-14)

1968 Cruise Book

Contributed by Chester O. Morris, USS Ticonderoga, 1967-69.

28 DEC 1967 - 17 AUG 1968, WestPac-VietnamCVW-19

NS021418Mid-1950s image(69Kb)

NS0214191960s image(47Kb)

NS021420Heavy seas en route Yokosuka from Hawaii, 1968(22Kb)

NS021421Heavy seas en route Yokosuka from Hawaii, 1968(18Kb)

NS021422Tonkin Gulf UNREP, 1968(60Kb)

NS021423Tonkin Gulf UNREP, 1968(32Kb)

NS021424Tonkin Gulf, 1968(70Kb)

NS021425Tonkin Gulf, 1968F-8E Crusader, VF-194 "Red Lightnings"(79Kb)

NS021475LCDR John B. NicholsOn July 9, 1968 LCDR Nichols (VF-191) shot down a MiG-17 while
escorting a VFP-63 RF-8G on a low-level mission south of Vinh(see also "The Big T,"
July–August 1968 issue, pages 8 & 9.)(38Kb)

USS TICONDEROGA (CVA-14)

1969 Cruise Book

Ticonderoga turned 25 years old, and 1969 Cruise Book had a lot
of historical stuff...
(See also 5th Vietnam Cruise.)

NS021428Launch of Ticonderoga on February 7, 1944(54Kb)

NS021429F6F's launching, June 10, 1944(43Kb)

NS021430Kamikaze hit, off Formosa, January 21, 1945(64Kb)

NS021431Undergoing, or shortly after, repairs, 1945(76Kb)

NS021432Men of USS Ticonderoga posed on flight deck, 1945(146Kb)

NS021433Mid-1950s, after SCB-27C modernization(72Kb)

NS021434Ticonderoga just out of the yards, 1957 [after SCB-125 modernization](61Kb)

NS021435Cars on the hanger bay during the "Tico Trek" to Bremerton, WashingtonNote: These appear to be file photos. The one on the right had been used for the 1965–66
Cruise Book (see NScv14cv6566-19). The one on the left seems to be older and
probably pertains to a previous "Tico Trek" to Bremerton, in 1962.(77Kb)

NS021442"Thieves Alley," Yokosuka.
Paul C. Lefsaker, QM3, who served in the Navigation Division with them, states that these Sailors are,
left to right, Gilbert Chavez, Scott Drumond, and Mike Bunnell.(95Kb)

NS02144314-14-14-14-14-14-14On May 14 at 1400 the USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) underwent
replenishment with USS Firedrake
(AE-14) and the USS Buchanan (DDG-14).
The first line went across at 1414, and the Photographer who took the photograph, PH1 R. M. Smith was
in his 14th year of naval service. Coincidence was the word of the day.(72Kb)